Nurse Navigator Heart Failure
About The Position
Navigates patient and family members through the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of the patient throughout the continuum of care ensuring smooth transitions between care settings. Collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team to support patients and families in addressing the following dimensions of care: education, psychosocial needs, advocacy, and continuity of care. Provides continuity of care by ensuring smooth transitions between care settings. Develops a relationship with patient and their multidisciplinary team to facilitate and/or navigate through subsequent treatment and follow-up to reflect continuity of care. Completes a nursing assessment to identify the patient's individualized needs and collaborates with multidisciplinary team and other departments to develop an interdisciplinary plan of care. Supports the patient and family by providing education, addressing psychosocial needs, advocating, providing continuity of care and identifying barriers to care. Navigates patients and family members throughout the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of the patient throughout the continuum of care. Provides expert clinical advice to the multidisciplinary team in designing collaborative teaching plans/programs and in planning/providing patient/family education and discharge planning including wellness and health maintenance within designated specialty. Coordinates timely, seamless, evidenced based care across the care continuum resulting in best patient outcomes. Evaluates, selects or designs patient education materials on specific disease site programs. Provides education and outreach programs to patients, Aurora staff and to members of the community. Assist leadership in developing program vision, goals and objectives. Assists in the development, implementation and maintenance of quality programs that include best practice patient care outcomes including quality of life, and enhanced patient loyalty.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited school of nursing with Current IL RN license
- BSN required
- 3-5 years experience in cardiology nursing that includes performing nursing assessments, care plan development and educating patients.
- Current AHA CPR
- Working knowledge of the components of quality and acute patient care needs specifically related to heart failure.
- Excellent analytical and interpersonal communication skills necessary to negotiate with families, patient, physicians and third party payers.
- Demonstrated ability to work well with physicians and other professionals in a direct and positive manner.
Nice To Haves
- Heart Failure (CHFN) Certification from Cardiovascular Nursing Education Associates (CNEA) needs to be obtained within 2 years
Responsibilities
- Navigates patient and family members through the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of the patient throughout the continuum of care ensuring smooth transitions between care settings.
- Collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team to support patients and families in addressing education, psychosocial needs, advocacy, and continuity of care.
- Provides continuity of care by ensuring smooth transitions between care settings.
- Develops a relationship with patient and their multidisciplinary team to facilitate and/or navigate through subsequent treatment and follow-up.
- Completes a nursing assessment to identify the patient's individualized needs and collaborates with multidisciplinary team and other departments to develop an interdisciplinary plan of care.
- Supports the patient and family by providing education, addressing psychosocial needs, advocating, providing continuity of care and identifying barriers to care.
- Provides expert clinical advice to the multidisciplinary team in designing collaborative teaching plans/programs and in planning/providing patient/family education and discharge planning including wellness and health maintenance within designated specialty.
- Coordinates timely, seamless, evidenced based care across the care continuum resulting in best patient outcomes.
- Evaluates, selects or designs patient education materials on specific disease site programs.
- Provides education and outreach programs to patients, Aurora staff and to members of the community.
- Assist leadership in developing program vision, goals and objectives.
- Assists in the development, implementation and maintenance of quality programs that include best practice patient care outcomes including quality of life, and enhanced patient loyalty.
Benefits
- Comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs
- Competitive compensation
- Generous retirement offerings
- Programs that invest in your career development
- Paid Time Off programs
- Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
- Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
- Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
- Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
- Educational Assistance Program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
1-10 employees
